Saturday, March 14, 2015

21 de Abril

Hola!

happy late easter!

well this week was
insane. also, before, to warn yall, the "a" key does not work here
very well...so you can fill them in..haha. probably te most insane week
of my entire mission. To keep it short, all of this week we were
preparing Luis for his baptism. He passed his interview and everything.
We wanted to baptize him on saturday, that wy we could get confirmed on
sunday in sacrment meeting. Luis is doing great. The only problem
is that he is having legal problems and is living on the streets. But he
is reading the book of mormon and we have been traveling to the church-which is
in the section of the elders, each day for the last two weeks. anyways,
he does his prayers so great! He is lots more humble than when i first
met him and wants to change his life and everything. Weve been teaching
him with some other members which has helped as well.

ANYWAYS. to save
you of the long story, we got a call from the bishopric sayng they wanted to do
the baptism on sunday because they werent going to be there on saturday, but we
talked it over and a different leader ws going to preside in the baptism.
basiclly we pulled together a bptism in the morning. we had the
font filled, the agenda set, our investigator excited, when we recieved a
phonecall..the leaders withdrew their permission from the other leader to
preside and the baptism was going to be on sunday. so that was fun. we
went to drain the baptismal font, cried a lot, and told luis that it had to be
tomorrow. then we waited for the elders who had keys to the chapel to
come lock it up. two members showed up and took us to eat-we had to
cancel our lunch because we were filling the font.

the hardest part was
when w went out to tell luis, he told us that he didnt want to be baptized and
tried giving back his book of mormon. i felt like it couldnt get any worse.
but we convinced him to keep his book of mormon and come the next day for
his baptism. he walked away super hurt and sad, but said he would
come.

then tht night, our
zone leaders said that they had talked to luis in the english clsses tht night
and he said he was goin to come to church the next day....but he cant get
baptized yet still for a load of complicated problems.

anywys, it was the
worst 32 hours ever! but in the end, we talked to luis, and he tlked to one of
the counselors nd they put goals for his house sitution so tht he cn get
baptized soon...

luis is happy at
least. nd humble. it was literally a miracle tht he didnt go running when
he couldnt get bptized on sautyrd or sunday.

so i dont mean to make
this letter sound negative at all! thats the lst thing im trying to
do...just stating the facts. anywys. luis? still progressing. he wants to
be born again...he totlly fits the qualifications for bptism, but has to take
care of a few things first!

more than that, i was
reading isaiah in my spanish book of mormon. its suprisingly easier to
understand in spanish. who would have thought??

well i guess i learned
a lot of things this week. i think my faith grew, nd the good is that we
helped luis recognize it as a trial of his faith-to help him grow more.

it continues to be
chilly at night...but its normal now.

transfers are this
week. im thinking im gonna stay...

but yeah. from
what ive heard, the fires in valpo are under control. so thts good news!

well thats the big
news of this week. we also taught a menos activo family. the mom is
named angela. i love her! shes so sweet.